Organophosphate insecticide use and cancer incidence among spouses of pesticide applicators in the Agricultural Health Study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 736-744

  Lerro, Catherine C ^a,b   Koutros, Stella ^a   Andreotti, Gabriella ^a   Friesen, Melissa C ^a   Alavanja, Michael C ^a   Blair, Aaron ^a   Hoppin, Jane A ^c   Sandler, Dale P ^d   Lubin, Jay H ^a   Ma, Xiaomei ^b   Zhang, Yawei ^b   Freeman, Laura E Beane ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; ORGANOPHOSPHATE INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE; SEX HORMONE; DIMPYLATE; INSECTICIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA METHYLATION; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; EXCISION REPAIR; FARM ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MENOPAUSE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SPOUSE; THYROID CANCER; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; UTERUS CANCER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COHORT ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DIAZINON; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSECTICIDES; IOWA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPOUSES; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941805653     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102798     Document Type: Article

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